All I have to say is DON'T BUY IT TIL YOU TRY IT!!! I played the japanese import the week it was released, and quite frankly the games look horrible. Take Teken 3 (PS1) for example... Play it in a PS2. Play in say King's stage... now as you move, notice the seam between the floor and the background??? Now put it in your PS1. See a difference??? Okay you are going to say that sure a PS1 game will play better on a PS1 than on a PS2... well try Teken Tag... notice the same thing? I sure did... And I will go back to my origional statement... If these babies are so hot, why are they going for $40 right now in Japan?
Well while many of you are shelling out up to $700 for your very own PS2 before having even bought it, I'd like to say one thing... The estimate of $199 by next christmas in this article is WAY off. You can already get them for as little as $40 (US) in Japan. Why you ask. Because it sucks. Plain and simple. Games are going for as little as ooh $20 average... It is not fully backwards compatible with PS1 games... infact just search the web and you will already find lists of incompatible games... oh but wait it plays DVDs right??? Well not ALL DVDs... don't ask me how this happened, but it doesn't even play the Matrix... oh hmm... must still be alright though right because this is Sony... wrong.. the pure lack of 3D hardware makes this baby awful... take my advise and either buy a PS1 for $99, wait for a game cube, or wait for the PS2 to reach the sub $100 level... Sony pulled a Sega Saturn boys and girls.
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All I have to say is DON'T BUY IT TIL YOU TRY IT!!! I played the japanese import the week it was released, and quite frankly the games look horrible. Take Teken 3 (PS1) for example... Play it in a PS2. Play in say King's stage... now as you move, notice the seam between the floor and the background??? Now put it in your PS1. See a difference??? Okay you are going to say that sure a PS1 game will play better on a PS1 than on a PS2... well try Teken Tag... notice the same thing? I sure did... And I will go back to my origional statement... If these babies are so hot, why are they going for $40 right now in Japan?
Well while many of you are shelling out up to $700 for your very own PS2 before having even bought it, I'd like to say one thing... The estimate of $199 by next christmas in this article is WAY off. You can already get them for as little as $40 (US) in Japan. Why you ask. Because it sucks. Plain and simple. Games are going for as little as ooh $20 average... It is not fully backwards compatible with PS1 games... infact just search the web and you will already find lists of incompatible games... oh but wait it plays DVDs right??? Well not ALL DVDs... don't ask me how this happened, but it doesn't even play the Matrix... oh hmm... must still be alright though right because this is Sony... wrong.. the pure lack of 3D hardware makes this baby awful... take my advise and either buy a PS1 for $99, wait for a game cube, or wait for the PS2 to reach the sub $100 level... Sony pulled a Sega Saturn boys and girls.